Minn. group's ads take on dealership ‘horror stories'
A new campaign for Apple Autos in Minnesota features customers bragging to friends and family that they “didn’t get screwed” while buying a new vehicle.
Stellantis offers to restart Belvidere plant, add battery facility
The move would be a huge win for Belvidere and for Illinois, which has been working to convince the two big legacy automakers in the state, Stellantis and Ford, to keep building vehicles there.
UAW ‘home run' carries big price
A deal that boosts top wages to more than $41 an hour by 2027 and restores much of what the UAW gave up over the past two decades will increase labor costs by $850 to $900 per vehicle, Ford said.
Ford, GM push back spending on EVs
GM said it no longer will provide EV production targets so it can build to market demand, while Ford said it would delay about $12 billion in EV spending, including one of two battery plants planned in Kentucky.
Japan's slow walk to EVs starts to look wise
Japan’s automaker put on an EV extravaganza at Tokyo’s auto show in an admission that EVs are a ‘missing piece’ of their technology toolboxes, but executives defend their deliberate, go-slow EV rollouts as being “just in time” to meet sustainable market demand.